Music Major, Zach Mangan ’26, bass trombone and voice, will present his senior recital. The concert is free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed on the Gustavus Music YouTube page.
It’ll be a homecoming of sorts when an Iowa native musician returns to Ames to perform this weekend. John Engelkes grew up in Parkersburg and now plays bass trombone with the San Francisco Symphony.
This guy ‘played’ Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee on bass trombone, and trolled us all. Rimsky-Korsakov was a master of orchestration. His buzzing orchestral interlude, written for his opera ...